Teams Share Honors In Academic Games

Teams from four Palm Beach County schools shared championship honors in the mathematics competition of the county`s annual Academics Games held recently at Palm Beach Junior College.

Palm Beach Gardens High School, led by instructor-coach Laura Berrigan, narrowly defeated Forest Hill High School of West Palm Beach in the high school division, said event spokesman Larry Liss.

Individual champions, who will represent the school district at the Academic Games National Olympics in April, included John Bollinger, Jennifer Langford and Brad Weinberg, all of Forest Hill, and Jay Eng, Ryan Kollmer and Neerav Shav, all of Palm Beach Gardens High.

Crestwood Middle School in Royal Palm Beach, led by coach Becky McLaughlin, dominated the overall middle school/junior high school division, Liss said.

Team members Tim Boyum, Steve Grave de Peralta, Brett Herring, Desiree Miles Jason Rubin and Lee Vaccaro were individual champions.

Other division champions included Matt Knowles from Boca Raton Middle School and Edith Simon from Lake Shore Middle School.

Conniston Junior High School in West Palm Beach, led by coach Anne Hudnall, won the middle school/junior high equations competition.

Team members Randy Goldfarb, Michael Hovey and Chad Sclove were individual champions.

Other individual champions included Sherry Dile from East Lake Middle School in Pahokee, James Funderburk from Palm Springs Elementary School, Larry Jackson from Logger`s Run Middle School in Boca Raton and Steve Speicher from Boca Raton Elementary School.